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2011
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14 years 8 months ago
Infrastructures for low-cost laptop use in Mexican schools
In recent years, a number of low-cost laptops have been created for children’s education, most notably the XO, developed by One Laptop per Child to embody principles of construc...
Ruy Cervantes, Mark Warschauer, Bonnie A. Nardi, N...
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Synchronous interaction among hundreds: an evaluation of a conference in an avatar-based virtual environment
This paper presents the first in-depth evaluation of a large multi-format virtual conference. The conference took place in an avatar-based 3D virtual world with spatialized audio,...
Thomas Erickson, N. Sadat Shami, Wendy A. Kellogg,...
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Some like it hot: thermal feedback for mobile devices
Thermal stimulation is a rich, emotive and salient feedback channel that is well suited to HCI, but one that is yet to be fully investigated. Thermal feedback may be suited to env...
Graham Wilson, Martin Halvey, Stephen A. Brewster,...
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Target assistance for subtly balancing competitive play
In games where skills such as targeting are critical to winning, it is difficult for players with different skill levels to have a competitive and engaging experience. Although se...
Scott Bateman, Regan L. Mandryk, Tadeusz Stach, Ca...
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Motionbeam: a metaphor for character interaction with handheld projectors
We present the MotionBeam metaphor for character interaction with handheld projectors. Our work draws from the tradition of pre-cinema handheld projectors that use direct physical...
Karl D. D. Willis, Ivan Poupyrev, Takaaki Shirator...